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The US military's famed scientific wingnut farm, DARPA,

has released full details of its planned "National Cyber Range"

- a mighty network which could be configured to simulate

the cyberspace battlefields of the future.

This would allow America's fighting nerds to train for the net conflicts of tomorrow,

mounting attacks on simulated enemies or defending

against devastating cyber strikes by the enemies of democracy.

The Cyber Range proposal was trailed last December,

but yesterday full details for those wishing to become network killing-house builders were Essentially,

DARPA seem to be after something not unlike an entire simulated world.

to play the parts of users, sysadmins and so forth.

DARPA refers to these software sim-people as "replicants".

Unsurprisingly, with crack Pentagon dorks tooled up

with secret cyber thrust packages battling "nation-state quality"

opposition packing weapons-grade malware,

DARPA expect a lot of virtual devastation and e-blood all over the carpet.

Even so, the Range must be able to clean itself up and rebuild instantly

- or "sanitize resources securely and rapidly when resources are freed from tests".

And just in case all that wasn't enough,

the Range must also be able to function as a time machine.

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